Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, andhis writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The LaterRoman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years duringMarcellinus' own lifetime, covering the reigns of Constantius,Julian, Jovian, Valentinian I, and Valens, and providing eyewitnessaccounts of significant military events including the Battle ofStrasbourg and the Goth's Revolt. Portraying a time of rapid anddramatic change, Marcellinus describes an Empire exhausted byexcessive taxation, corruption, the financial ruin of the middleclasses and the progressive decline in the morale of the army. Inthis magisterial depiction of the closing decades of the RomanEmpire, we can see the seeds of events that were to lead to thefall of the city, just twenty years after Marcellinus' death.
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Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian,continuing the histories of Tacitus from AD 96 down to his own day.The first thirteen of his thirty-one books are lost: the remainderdescribe AD 354 - 378. Walter Hamilton translated Plato'sSymposium, the Gorgias, Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII forPenguin Classics. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Professor of Classicsat Reading University. His books include Suetonius: the Scholar andhis Caesars.
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